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    "id": 271997,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/271997/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mudavadi",
    "speaker_title": "The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Local Government",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 84,
        "legal_name": "Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi",
        "slug": "musalia-mudavadi"
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, previously, when Kenya started on the road map to devolution, one of the early points of attack in ensuring that devolution never succeeded was the area of public finance. What happened was that the then regions were simply starved of resources and by so doing, the central Government then was able to make sure that the county governments became subservient and they started trooping back to the centre with begging bowls to be able to survive. We do not want that to recur. We do not want our county governments to become begging counties. We want them to become counties that will generate employment, attract investment and actually be able to realise growth in terms of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and sustain it at a very high level; we all would like to see it at a rate of about 10 per cent or more, so that we can generate sufficient employment for our people."
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